Kaine noted much of the shipbuilding workforce the Navy will need is barely past pre-kindergarten, which is why the program focused as much on the needs of early and improved recruiting for manufacturing and shipbuilding jobs as it did on the logistical impacts of the expansion.

The Virginia Beach-based veteran-owned maritime and defense engineering and technical services firm bought the Fredericksburg-based company that provides navigational and meteorological system elements.

“I look at this as being history. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” said a submarine welder, who was among thousands of shipyard workers and sailors crowded into the carrier's hangar bay to see the president.

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